NATIONAL DISCOUNT BROKERS GROUP INC
SC TO-T/A, 2000-11-15
SECURITY BROKERS, DEALERS & FLOTATION COMPANIES
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
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                                  SCHEDULE TO/A

                                 (Rule 14d-100)

            Tender Offer Statement under Section 14(d)(1) or 13(e)(1)
                     of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
                                (Amendment No. 2)

                      National Discount Brokers Group, Inc.
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                            (Name of Subject Company)

                                Deutsche Bank AG
                                       and
                           Deutsche Acquisition Corp.

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                      (Name of Filing Persons -- Offerors)

                     Common Stock, par value $.01 per share
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                         (Title of Class of Securities)

                                   635646 102
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                      (CUSIP Number of Class of Securities)

Please send all notices and communications to:          with copies to:
          Deutsche Acquisition Corp.               Daniel S. Sternberg, Esq.
     c/o Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch           William A. Groll, Esq.
             31 West 52nd Street              Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
              New York, NY 10019                       One Liberty Plaza
          Attention: General Counsel               New York, New York 10006
                 212-469-5000                            212-225-2000
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      (Name, Address and Telephone Number of Persons Authorized to Receive
             Notices and Communications on Behalf of Filing Persons)

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                            Calculation of Filing Fee

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      Transaction Valuation*                        Amount of Filing Fee**
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           $950,604,214                                  $190,120.84
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*    Estimated for purposes of calculating the amount of filing fee only. The
     amount assumes the purchase of 19,400,086 shares of common stock, par value
     $.01 per share ("Shares"), at a price per Share of $49.00 in cash. Such
     number of Shares represents the number of Shares outstanding as of October
     20, 2000 on a fully-diluted basis, assuming the exercise of all options to
     purchase Shares outstanding as of such date, less the number of Shares
     already beneficially owned by Deutsche Bank AG.

**   The filing fee, calculated in accordance with Rule 0-11 of the Securities
     Exchange Act of 1934, is 1/50th of one percent of the aggregate Transaction
     Valuation.

[X]      Check box if any part of the fee is offset as provided by Rule
         0-11(a)(2) and identify the filing with which the offsetting fee was
         previously paid. Identify the previous filing by registration statement
         number, or the Form or Schedule and the date of its filing.

         Amount Previously Paid:  $171,581.15.
         Form or Registration No.:  Schedule TO.
         Filing Party:  Deutsche Bank AG
         Date Filed:  October 24, 2000.

         Amount Previously Paid:  $18,539.69
         Form or Registration No.:  Schedule TO/A
         Filing Party:  Deutsche Bank AG
         Date Filed:  November 9, 2000

[ ]      Check the box if the filing relates solely to preliminary
         communications made before the commencement of a tender offer.

         Check the appropriate boxes below to designate any transactions to
         which the statement relates:
         [X]  third-party tender offer subject to Rule 14d-1.

         [ ]  issuer tender offer subject to Rule 13e-4.

         [X]  going-private transaction subject to Rule 13e-3.

         [X]  amendment to Schedule 13D under Rule 13d-2.

         Check the following box if the filing is a final amendment reporting
the results of the tender offer: [ ]

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         This Amendment No. 2 (this "Amendment"), amends and supplements the
Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO (as amended and supplemented, the
"Schedule TO") filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 24,
2000, as previously amended by Amendment No. 1 on November 9, 2000, by Deutsche
Bank AG, a banking company with limited liability organized under the laws of
the Federal Republic of Germany ("Deutsche Bank"), and Deutsche Acquisition
Corp., a Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of
Deutsche Bank ("Purchaser"), relating to the offer by Purchaser to purchase all
outstanding shares of common stock, par value $.01 per share ("Shares"), of
National Discount Brokers Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("NDB"), which are
not owned by Deutsche Bank or its affiliates, at $49.00 per Share, net to the
seller in cash (less any required withholding taxes), without interest thereon,
upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the offer to purchase,
dated October 24, 2000 (the "Offer to Purchase"), and in the related letter of
transmittal (the "Letter of Transmittal," which together with the Offer to
Purchase, as amended or supplemented from time to time, collectively constitute
the "Offer"), which are attached as Exhibits (a)(1)(A) and (a)(1)(B) to the
Schedule TO. Capitalized terms used and not defined herein shall have the
meanings assigned to such terms in the Offer to Purchase and the Schedule TO.

         This Amendment and the Schedule TO also amend and supplement the
Schedule 13D of Deutsche Bank, DBUS (as defined therein) and Purchaser, filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 27, 2000, as previously
amended (the "Schedule 13D"), which is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEMS 1 THROUGH 9 AND 11 THROUGH 13

         Items 1 through 9 and 11 through 13 of the Schedule TO, which
incorporate by reference the information contained in the Offer to Purchase, are
hereby amended and supplemented as follows:

         The second sentence of the second paragraph on page 23 of the section
of the Offer to Purchase entitled "Position of Deutsche Bank and Purchaser
Regarding Fairness of the Offer and the Merger" is hereby amended by deleting
the word "Neither" and inserting the following to begin such sentence:

                  "Other than the factors considered by Deutsche Bank and
         Purchaser described in this section of the Offer to Purchase, neither."

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                                    SIGNATURE

         After due inquiry and to the best of our knowledge and belief, we
certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and
correct.

                                           DEUTSCHE BANK AG


                                           By: /s/ Thomas A. Curtis
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                                           Name: Thomas A. Curtis
                                           Title: Attorney-in-Fact


                                           DEUTSCHE ACQUISITION CORP.



                                           By: /s/ Thomas A. Curtis
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                                           Name: Thomas A. Curtis
                                           Title: Vice President


                                           By: /s/ Kevin E. Parker
                                               ---------------------------
                                           Name: Kevin E. Parker
                                           Title: President





Dated: November 15, 2000



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